scholarly journals Ground Reservoir: A New Pattern of Groundwater Utilization in Arid North-west China -A Case Study in Tailan River Basin

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 2210-2221 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Deng
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
West China ◽  
North West ◽  
Tailan River Basin

Effect of climate changes and water‐related human activities on annual stream flows of the Shiyang river basin in arid north‐west China

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (16) ◽  
pp. 3155-3167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zailin Huo ◽  
Shaoyuan Feng ◽  
Shaozhong Kang ◽  
Wangcheng Li ◽  
Shaojun Chen
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
West China ◽  
Stream Flows ◽  
North West ◽  
Shiyang River Basin

scholarly journals The Centrality of Actors and Interfaces in the Understanding of New Ruralities: A Chinese Case Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Long ◽  
Jinlong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
West China ◽  
North West ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Cross Country

This paper aims to demonstrate the advantages of adopting an ethnographic, actor interface approach to understanding the ongoing dynamics of rural development and policy intervention processes. It does so through the discussion of an EU-funded project orientated to introducing village-level forest-management practices in north-west China. The case highlights the ongoing everyday struggles over livelihoods and resources and focuses on the negotiations that take place between the various social actors involved. The case analysis is preceded by a broad-sweep overview of the rise of new ruralities and a discussion of the key elements of an actor interface analysis. The article concludes with a call for more cross-country and cross-regional studies of this kind.

Using Religion to Resist Rural Dispossession: A Case Study of a Hui Muslim Community in North-west China

2016 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangqiang Luo ◽  
Joel Andreas
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Land Expropriation ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
West China ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
North West ◽  
Political Protests

AbstractIn this paper, we examine the role played by religion in a struggle waged by Hui Muslim villagers against land expropriation. Religion can provide powerful resources for protest movements, especially for religious minorities, but it can also be dangerous. This is particularly true in China where the state has had little toleration of autonomous organization and has long been suspicious of religious organization, especially among ethnic minorities. Scholarly literature about collective action by religious minorities in China has focused on protests about cultural and political issues – and the repression of such protests – but there has been relatively little scholarship about protests by religious minorities over economic issues. The number of protests over economic conflicts has increased in recent years, and the state has been more tolerant of economic than of political protests. These conditions have shaped the following questions: what happens when villagers employ religious ideas and use religious organization to advance economic demands? How effective are religious ideas and organization as tools of mobilization? How do government authorities respond?

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